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Breath of Harmattan
This novel is the story of a chosen brotherhood related not by blood but by migrations and the cross-fertilization and interpretation of cultures. Habéké Axoum, a young African who has escaped from “a war of men who were added to the harshness of God,” ends up in Canada after seeing his people die, but the comfort of his new material life cannot make him forget the past. Habéké meets Hugues Francoeur, a boy at odds with the hypocrisy of the “hard and the cold” all around him, with the world where vulgarity, stupidity, violence and latent racism run rampant, and their friendship will lead to dreams of exile and new beginnings.
TITLE : Breath of Harmattan
AUTHOR : Sylvain Trudel
COUNTRY : Canada
NUMBER OF PAGES : 166
SOLD TO: MATTHES & SEITZ (Germany)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sylvain Trudel is an implacable novelist who sees literature not as distraction but rather as the art of probing our consciousness. His first novel, The Breath of the Harmattan, published in 1986 and rewritten in 2001, won over the critics who recognized in him a kinship with Réjean Ducharme. Since then, Sylvain Trudel has been publishing steadily novels, short stories, and books for children. He has twice been a finalist for the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award.

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